BP: Operation 'Cap' - 3 Live Feeds

It is hard to believe anything that being said anymore.If you remeber the junk shot where the head of the coast guard had said that worked. And we all
kow what happened after that statement it did not work. You just do not know what to believe anymore.

Originally posted by tsurfer2000h
It is to easy for them to admit they are wrong. They just keep trying to pull the wool over our eyes. Hell they don't even know if this is going to
work. How sad is that.

What the hell is that statement supposed to mean?

They don't know if it'll work? I guess you are technically correct they don't have a time machine do they. I'm glad your attitude isn't running
the show though, you'd have said "Sorry I can't do it" without trying and gone home already. In fact you'd never leave your house would you you
don't even know if your gonna get run down by a bus do you? Best stay in.

Now that would be sad.

Yes there have been multiple failures yet there still working on more and more solutions - we can even see them doing it, there still trying to fix
this, yet you call there efforts sad.

Sorry to pick out your post in particular but there seems to be lots of people here that seem to think working and engineering at nearly 5000ft deep
in temperatures close to zero degrees Celsius is a walk in the park. It isn't.

If he wants to take the glory for stopping the leak he needs to be involved! Not hanging out with Paul McCartney!(sp?)
I am starting to think he hasn't a clue on what to do about this!
I'm embarrassed to admit I voted for him! He surely has let me down, especially with his anti-conspiracy theorist leanings!

US Coast Guard Adm Thad Allen said a rough estimate showed that about 1,000 barrels a day was being captured. This is only a small part of the
12,000-19,000 a day believed to be leaking and BP says it could take 48 hours to know if the system is working.

Once the hat is deemed secured they are going to close the valves on top and the oil should mostly stop leaking. I hope they succeed, enough damage
has been done already.

They still have a trying time ahead of them with the relief well. They have to drill down to and intersect the narrow well bore several miles under
the sea floor. That will require immense precision. It has been done before so it's very possible, I just hope they don't screw it up.

Just so you all know, the cap isn't getting much of the oil yet because they have not yet closed the 4 vents on the side of the cap. These vents will
be closed when they feel that the cap is on securely enough, and 1 by 1, they will close them to ensure the pressure is not too great and the cap will
not get blown off.

Someone is getting the full scope of this disaster, but it's not us. NASA has to have the technology to see the oil that is below the surface (some
wave length must make it stand out like a sore thumb) where is Phage when you need him?
The latest imagery always seems to be a week old. Who is to say that what we are seeing has not been altered.

I keep getting these images in my head of an enormous blob the size of Texas with millions of tons of dead creatures in it floating around the
Atlantic for decades to come.

To anyone who is claiming to see flames, Boa Deep C - ROV 2 has been used to "inject" dispersant straight into the plume of oil. The currents were
bad enough to move the oil off of the injection arm to the point you could see what looked to be a "white flame". You would also notice with this
the discoloration of the oil.

It's appropiately awful.
I got one of them to work for me. I went to the bp.com site and they have 12 links listed. Yesterday I could only get 2 of them to work and one
wasn't pointed at the pipe. I hope they get this to work. Everyone has their fingers crossed. I think the upward pressure will be too great when
they start closing down the 4 valves and it will just flip off. I hope not. Holding my breath with all of you...

So does anyone know if they tried closing the valves? It has been over 24 hours and I can't find any info, but the oil is still leaking out all
over. I wish we weren't kept in the dark! All I know is that they are saying that they are currently capturing about 1,000 bbl/day and that is at
best only 8% of what is leaking. If they can't get more than this a day, then this is definitely a fail.

The goal is to increase production slowly, stop the formation of gas hydrates forming at collection intake. America is very lucky that BP was able to
lop off the riser and use tophat. In our peoples yahoo group we believe BP is processing a new capture device because of the sheers used on riser
pipe. Therefore, the old will be removed and replaced with modified LMRP. Perhaps collection wil yield 15000b so the size of leak is easily
underestimated. This is known as runaway or wild well. Good news was not a yield production well or far more oil would be pouring out.

What BP should do now is try cutting through the flange bolts and install new riser which would look like so

T and completion flange on top oil must still circulate it seams incredible that you can lower a riser on a blowing well however can be done with the
right riser package.

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